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Computing

All faculty, staff, students, and long-term visitors must apply for and/or activate an individual GT account. Accounts are administered through the Office of Information Technology (OIT) and enable account holders access to a variety of resources and services. In most instances, GT Accounts are automatically created (e.g. when a student registers for classes, when faculty or staff are hired, when a visitor files all appropriate paperwork), but not yet activated.

ISyE faculty, staff, long-term visitors, and GRADUATE students may apply for access to ISyE UNIX resources. Please note that it usually takes 24-48 hours to process a request.

An ISyE UNIX account provides for the following:

A UNIX account home directory and access to the appropriate UNIX resources

The following does not require an ISyE UNIX account:

Buzzcard access for physical access to the ISyE buildings and computer labs. Newly registered ISyE students are automatically added to our Buzzcard system the week a semester starts. If your Buzzcard fails to work, please email facilities@isye.gatech.edu noting your full name and GTID.

Login access to the computers located in the computer labs. Computers located in these labs authenticate using your GT/OIT computer account credentials.

ISyE maintains a high performance computational cluster configured specifically for it's users. Our cluster consists of both general departmental hardware as well as faculty-owned systems. Everything is managed using the HTCondor resource management system from Wisconsin. As such, any idle cycles are available to the department at large. Faculty-owned systems have owner-priority preemption.

We maintain a full complement of software on the cluster. Programs and products include but are not limited to Matlab, Mathematica, CPLEX, Gurobi, AMPL, GAMS, Python, R, SAS, and Xpress.

Currently we have 67 systems in the cluster. Rough totals for resources are 742 cores of x86-64 processing with over 5.6TB of memory spread across the systems. Systems are connected via ten gigabit and gigabit ethernet and 20 systems are connected with an additional Infiniband high-speed interconnect.

For future HPC efforts, ISyE is developing a full OpenStack cluster to support various computing needs including but not limited to Windows-based compute, Hadoop, Apache Spark and others.

HPC

Server Group

Qty

Cores Per Server

Cores Per Group

Description

CPU

RAM

ISYE-aux1

1

10

10

Openstack Virtual Machine

58 GB

ISYE-aux2

1

12

12

Openstack Virtual Machine

125 GB

ISYE-aux3

1

10

10

Openstack Virtual Machine

58 GB

ISYE-aux4

1

10

10

Openstack Virtual Machine

58 GB

ISYE-aux7

1

8

8

Openstack Virtual Machine

156 GB

abel

1

16

16

Public large memory compute

Xeon E5-2670

384 GB

ames

1

12

12

Aerospace Compute

Xeon E5-2630

128 GB

boyle

10

8

80

Public parallel nodes

Xeon E5520

48 GB

bulldozer

1

32

32

Public compute node

Opteron 6274

128 GB

euclid-big

2

20

40

Boland/Savelsbergh compute

E5-2650v3

512 GB

euclid-small

4

20

80

Boland/Savelsbergh compute

E5-2650v3

256 GB

fisher

4

12

48

Public parallel nodes

Xeon E5-2630

64 GB

goddard

2

12

24

Aerospace compute

Xeon X5660

72 GB

godel

2

8

16

Eva Lee compute

Xeon E5345

12 GB

jacobi

8

12

96

Eva Lee compute

Xeon E5-2620

128 GB

krone/ruble

2

12

24

QCF compute

Xeon X5660

148 GB

leibniz

16

8

128

Eva Lee compute

Xeon E5430

32 GB

pepys

4

8

32

Public general compute

Xeon E5345

12 GB

tesla2

1

16

16

Pokutta GPU - TeslaC2075, GeForce TitanX

E5-2630v3

128 GB

wilkins

4

12

48

Public parallel nodes

Xeon E5645

48 GB

Total

67

742

Licensing

Licensing for all departmental software is handled through ISyE Information Technology. Software to be installed on ISyE equipment in student labs or in student offices must be approved by ISyE IT. Please email helpdesk@isye.gatech.edu for specific details.

Installation of ISyE Software on personal machines, or installation of your personal software on ISyE machines without prior approval, is illegal. ISyE laboratory machines are maintained and refreshed on a weekly basis. All non-ISyE software found installed on ISyE machines will be deleted.

If you need to download or install a licensed version of software, email helpdesk@isye.gatech.edu. Only administrators are allowed to install any type of software/update to any of the machines (this includes chat clients, music players, torrents, etc.)

Software will not be installed on your system without proof of a valid license.

MATLAB® is the high-level language and interactive environment used by millions of engineers and scientists worldwide. It lets you explore and visualize ideas and collaborate across disciplines including signal and image processing, communications, control systems, and computational finance.

Expression Web is the latest web development tool from Microsoft it is the successor to FrontPage. Expression Web allows you to graphically design websites using XML, CSS 2.1, ASP.NET 2.0, XHTML, XSLT and JavaScript.

SAS is an integrated system of software solutions that enables you to perform the following tasks: data entry, retrieval, and management. report writing and graphics design. statistical and mathematical analysis.

Information Technology Group

Information Technology is responsible for the computing and networking infrastructure and technical support necessary to sustain all of the Stewart School's activities - instruction, research, and administration.

The IT staff is available to assist with any ISyE related computing issues between the hours of 8AM until 6PM (at a minimum) on weekdays.

If you experience any problems with ISyE computing equipment or facilities, please report them to the helpdesk@isye.gatech.edu. In the event of emergencies or when e-mail is not possible, service can be requested by contacting any member of Information Technology team. The staff can be reached in person in their office suites in the Groseclose building (suite 302 and room 305) and through our helpdesk phone line at 404-894-6518.

Helpdesk requests are prioritized based on the urgency of the request. If you do not receive help within what you think is a reasonable amount of time, please contact Lawrence Sharp at 404-894-0270, or email Lawrence Sharp, with a copy of your original helpdesk request.

We endeavor to provide the best service possible with the resources available!